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NYT: What’s with the black suit, white shirt, black tie outfit you always wear? Do you have anything else in your closet? Cornel West: I’ve got four black suits that I circulate, and they are my cemetery clothes — my uniform that keeps me ready for battle. NYT: Your cemetery clothes? Cornel West: It’s ready [...]

I wore Minimalist Tees everyday of 2012, here’s how it went: There is a simplicity when getting dressed for the day. I’ve gotten used to using no mental effort whatsoever on deciding what to wear. There is only so much space in my mind and one less thing is only beneficial. I didn’t buy a [...]

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down” -Robert Frost

“Limitation is vital. The first step toward a well-told story is to create a small, knowable world. Artists by nature crave freedom, so the principle that the structure/setting relationship restricts creative choices may stir the rebel in you. With a closer look, however, you’ll see that this relationship couldn’t be more positive. The constraint that [...]

When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its upmost – and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl. -T.S. Eliot

The same could be said about almost everything…

Blake Mycoskie, Chief Shoe Giver at TOMS says the key to their success is a lack of resources. “Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit. An early and unearned sense of security can be the worst thing that can happen to a business. If you have a little money and have to bootstrap and [...]

“Good ideas are inevitibly contstained by the parts and skills that surrond them. We have a natural tendency to romanticize breackthrough innovations, imagining mommentous ideas transcending their surroundings, a gifted mind somehow seeing over the detritus of old ideas and ossified tradition. But ideas are works of bricolage; they’re built out of that detruis. We [...]